Best practices - Content creation order

Are you about to start creating new content? If so, this is for you! We have made this article to support the content creation efforts and make it as simple as possible.

Ready to start? Let's go!

What do you need to have ready to create content? It is the rule of the 3 C’s!

• Category

• Content Group

• Content piece

Category

The category determines how the content is allocated in the library and hence, it is best to think about how you want to bundle the content together. Is this part of the existing categories or something completely new? If it is the latter, then you are best to create a new category first so you can allocate the content piece directly into this.

Content Group

The content group determines who can see the content on the platform. Naturally, you can set the content as open access i.e. visible to everyone, however, if you like to ‘fence’ it for different user groups you can do this by creating a content group and allocating the pieces of content to the respective group.

Content Piece

You have now the category and content group ready so you can go ahead and start adding the content pieces to the platform! We recommend that if there are a number of content pieces, then create a section in the content areas to organise your content pieces together. Note the section is only visible on the admin side and does not impact how the learner will see the content.

How about gamification?

While it is not required to have a gamification element for each piece of content, we would recommend that you also consider the gamification elements before starting to create content.

Namely:

• Creating badges that relate to the content

• Thinking through the XP structure and how it relates to this piece of content

What about the content allocation?

Although you can simply create content for the library and thus, allow the user to search for this on their own time, we also recommend thinking through how to serve the user relevant content.

Hence, following the content creation, you can decide on how to allocate the content through:

• Adding the content to a level

• Adding the content price to a curriculum

• Sending users an invite to the content

Read more on the gamification and content allocation in our other blogs! Happy Creating!